OMG!!! I knew I wasn't making it up!!!

[Silver_FireStar]

Ok, who here knows the programe Andromeda?
Ok now what would you say if I said that I had the idea long before the thing was made?
I found it at last, the plans for a story named Andromeda which I had wrote in year six*0 I think. That's over 7 years ago!
Here is what my plans read:
(ok this part was in a spider diagram)Andromeda
Dillan
Tear
Magog
Commonwealth
Dromie (with the D scribbled out to read Romie)
Harper

(then listed)
The commonwealth was a collection of planets/
The hyguard were the people (crossed out and re-written as fighters) of the commonwealth
Andromeda was frozen in time for 300 years
When she and Dillan awake
They had to start to rebuild the commonwealth
The magog are growing
Tear loves to fight but thinks they'll loose
Harper is infected with Magog


*the writing is like that I had between the school years of 5-6

How fricken unbelievable is that? I knew the charecters seemed a bit familier to me when I started watching the thing! I figured that I had written it out and now I have found the writing! Creepy!

[Lost_Sole]

That is so odd...

[Amethyst Rose]

Or.....someone discovered your writings, somehow, and stole your idea to make the show! Heck, even if someone didnt, and this was some kinda future sence of yours, sue whoever it is that writes/produces andromeda for stealing your story!! You could make a fortune!! :D

[Mister Sandman]

I have actually long been Lord of Andromeda, as you can see from my Avatar, LOL. But, no, I'd never heard of the programme.

But you know what? And you're probably not going to believe me, but.....


I wrote The Matrix. Seriously, I wrote a short story when I was in college, well before The Matrix was made, which basically included most of the key concepts in that movie. I had intended to develop into a novel once I had time to pad it out a bit, but I guess tis not going to happen now, lol.

[Silver_FireStar]

No, I'm not going to sue, Just to actually find this is enough. I can finally understand why it was so familier to me. -dances-

Darn, and I bet you could have done a better job of the matrix too.

[Gareth]

That show Andromeda, was concieved by Gene Roddenberry.
The story, characters all of it.
He never bothered with it because of Star Trek : TNG show
He died in 1991.

[Silver_FireStar]

That show Andromeda, was concieved by Gene Roddenberry.
The story, characters all of it.
He never bothered with it because of Star Trek:TNG show
He died in 1991.
so?

[Xentor]

Way cool, Silver Firestar!

I had something similar. You know the kids' show, Bob the Builder? Its soundtrack, I wrote something very similar, only a couple of years older.

[Silver_FireStar]

ooooh, -hums bob th builder- That song is so addictive.

[LadyTrinity]

I think we all think the same thing at some point in time.. thats why its best to have your idea's patented or etc.. so no one can take your idea :fpartyhat

[Gracecat]

I know Ben Tris. (our friendly admin) will back me up on this because we've talked about it somewhat extensively off and on in the last couple weeks.

Fantasy is redundant, extremely so. The minor details may be strikingly similar, it may be distantly related but the genre follows a format. You need X, Y and Z to make publishable genre fiction. Now, whether or not you agree *grin*, being soaked in the genre for so long you are going to pick up interesting things that would be neat or cool to have in another movie, taking subplots and stuffing them all in one novel/movie.

Now the Matrix movie, could be linked back to it's grandfather Tron. When Tron was made, "cyberspace" or an inner computer world wasn't as "current" as when Matrix came out. Matrix was an elaboration much like the Internet today is an elaboration of the computer tech world when well.. Tron was made. Does that make any sense?

If you watch Farscape, Andromeda, SG1... all of them have some of the same elements because that's what the consumer wants. Yes you may have been inspired to have a very similar idea to this. But with a broad genre, it can probably be argued and brought forth additional titles by other authors that are strikingly similar to Andromeda that can be proven were not written or manifested by the same individual.

No offense Silver but age is going to come into play here. You're 18, I'd like to feel comfortable saying that I don't believe you've read generations worth of sci-fi/fantasy fiction. I read it constantly and even I haven't had a chance to read some of the greats. But over time, and with several authors under your belt so to speak, you being to pick up similarities. One of my favorite series written by JD Robb is a near replica of a Sylvester Stallone movie where he is a futuristic police officer. Over a period of time you can't help but have several people hosting the same idea at once because they've all been influenced by the same previous released works of fiction.

And trust me, the "forgotten" classic authors of the genre are the building block to many of today's sci-fi/fantasy fiction. In my experience you can always link a current release to one of 30, 40 or 50 years ago. It is very rare that you have an author or screenwriter that brings something new and fresh to the field. Sad, but very true.

On a small petty scale, it's like romance fiction writers. Classically similar, almost boringly so :).

Now saying that, you probably did :). And it's awesome that you have the imagination to create an intricate complicated world. You should be extremely proud of yourself and work with it. You still have the ability to take what you have and bring something different, switch a few places or character profiles and it may take you in a separate direction that *will* be fresh, new and exciting. Kill of your main character and be forced to work with a grunt fill-in for example :)